Joe Monteleone’s Tarot Mysticism – Visual Primer is not a book you sit down to read cover-to-cover on a rainy afternoon; it is a meticulously crafted schematic for the esoteric tarot practitioner. In a tarot market flooded with beginner-friendly keyword dictionaries, this 200+ page visual grimoire acts as an advanced decoder ring for the Golden…
I don’t believe that it is possible to ‘prove’ the existence of fairies. We meet these folk with our hearts and emotions. I believe we see them with our intuitive senses rather than with our physical eyes, although we see them clearly. As soon as our mental intellect is triggered, they are gone. (MFS p….
Do you know where the liminal is? Have you ever been there? There are perhaps some examples that we all share knowledge of. For instance, twilight, that moment between dawn and daylight or dusk and night time. It is a threshold between one place and another, a bridge or stairs, a doorway, or even between…
About a year into my tarot studies, I signed up for a class with Jenna Matlin on using tarot for mediumship. It set me on the path to becoming a medium. Jenna’s classes (and her first book, Will You Give Me A Reading?) are who I attribute my learning to read tarot intuitively, beyond the…
Tarot, Magic, & Reason, aka TOMAR, is a stunning book and deck combo created by the lovely ‘Debs’ (Deborah Allen). The subtitle reads: The TOMAR In-Depth Beginner’s Guide to Tarot Theory and Practice…but, to be clear, the ‘beginners’ part of the subtitle is referencing learning tarot theory, “exploring its traditional ideas in their modern context…[to]…
Lon Milo DuQuette’s Classic Handbook Still Deserves its Reputation, but This Edition Needed More Lon Some books become classics because nobody supersedes them. Others arrive at the right moment and solve a problem so thoroughly that their original necessity becomes difficult to remember. Lon Milo DuQuette’s The Magick of Aleister Crowley belongs mostly to the…